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Vestron Pictures

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Former type
  
Motion pictures

Defunct
  
1991

Headquarters
  
United States of America

Ceased operations
  
1991

Industry
  
Films

Key people
  
Austin O. Furst, Jr.

Founded
  
1986

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Fate
  
Acquired by LIVE Entertainment

Successor
  
LIVE Entertainment (1990–1998)Artisan Entertainment (1998–2004)Lionsgate Home Entertainment (2004–present)

Films produced
  
Little Monsters, Parents, Far from Home, You Can't Hurry Love, Dangerous Curves

Vestron Pictures was a film studio and distributor of the late 1980s, and a division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing.

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The company was a spin-off of the earlier video distributor, Vestron Video. Vestron also had a genre film division, Lightning Pictures, a spin-off of Vestron's Lightning Video. Today, Lionsgate owns the rights to the Vestron library.


Productions

  • Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1991) (released by Taurus Entertainment Company)
  • Blue Steel (1990) (eventually acquired and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer due to financial problems)
  • Catchfire (1990)
  • Class of 1999 (1990) (released by Taurus Entertainment Company)
  • Enid Is Sleeping (1990)
  • Fear (1990)
  • A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990)
  • Love Hurts (1990)
  • Spies on Ice (1990)
  • Big Man on Campus (1989)
  • Cat Chaser (1989)
  • C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. (1989)
  • Dream a Little Dream (1989)
  • Earth Girls Are Easy (1989, distribution only)
  • Far From Home (1989)
  • Hider in the House (1989)
  • Little Monsters (1989, Vestron produced the film but sold the film to United Artists due to financial problems)
  • Paint It Black (1989)
  • Parents (1989)
  • The Rainbow (1989)
  • Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)
  • Twister (1989)
  • And God Created Woman (1988)
  • Amsterdamned (1988, US distribution only)
  • The Beat (1988)
  • Burning Secret (1988)
  • Call Me (1988)
  • Dangerous Curves (1988)
  • The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
  • Midnight Crossing (1988)
  • Paramedics (1988)
  • Promised Land (1988)
  • Spies Inc. (1988) (released on videocassette in 1992 by Live Home Video, under the name Code Name: Chaos)
  • The Unholy (1988)
  • Waxwork (1988)
  • Young Guns (1988, international and video distribution only, 20th Century Fox owned North American theatrical rights)
  • The Adventure of the Action Hunters (1987)
  • Anna (1987)
  • Blood Diner (1987)
  • China Girl (1987)
  • Dirty Dancing (1987)
  • Malcolm (1987, US distribution only)
  • Nightforce (1987)
  • The Princess Bride (1987, international distribution only; 20th Century Fox owned North American theatrical rights)
  • Steel Dawn (1987)
  • Billy Galvin (1986)
  • The Pointsman (1986)
  • Slaughter High (1986)
  • Alpine Fire (1985)

    • References

    Vestron Pictures Wikipedia
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